Winter

Is making it's presence felt in the Northern Plains. After being hammered with snow early this week, Montana is bracing for overnight lows in the single digits!. ( This is outside of the mountains). Snow will wall as far south as Central Nebraska on Saturday, streaking throuh South Dakota into Minnesota with a seperate Snowstorm Monday. What is interesting about these snows -- they are ARTIC fronts. Meaning, all of the moisture, is coming from the Artic circle. Something very rarely seen in the lower 48 until November. ( Most snows in the lower 48 involove moisture from the Pacific, Gulf, Atlantic Oceans, or Great Lakes). This snow, will be of artic origins. It is snowing right now IN KANSAS!. It's only the first week of October! Attached is the likely hood of seeing a 4" + snowfall. Notice only the far corner of Nebraska is in the green ( if your in this at 3 days before the storm, it's a good bet someone will see 6"). Almost half the state is in the blue, so almost all of these places will see a couple of inches. The map is provided by the HPC, a service of the National Weather Service.